India's greatest loss against the West Indies -1997

India get bowled out for 81 and are humiliated while chasing 120 against the West Indies in the 3rd test match at Barbados kensington oval in 1997. 81 ALL OUT! The Indian batting consisted of stalwarts like VVS Laxman, Navjot Sidhu , Rahul Dravid , Sachin Tendulkar , Sourav Ganguly and Mohammed Azharuddin and yet could not chase 120.
#barbados1997 #indvswestindies #120 #81allout

[@k.s.shivakumarsr.lecturer9008]

Awesome victory for the kings of cricket. Though an Indian, I salute the glorious sportsmanship and thirst for victory of my ever favourite West Indies. Very painful to see that Great West Indies has now become Waste Indies.

[@evelynd.robinson9727]

Good memories...my son laugh so much...so happy... He knocked over my vase of flowers.. we Caribbean people love our cricket then.

[@lvrnpavankumar6767]

The match, similiar to Ind-Aus 2004-05 Mumbai 4th test.Even defending can be as thrilling and exciting as chasing!

[@iamempress292]

That target was slim. Gosh how did India loose this? I know! Windies bowling line up was too magnificent.

[@chhapry]

Because all these popular batters were only 24 yrs old then . Later they all became the classy players. With experience.

[@CarltonMclean-yf8fm]

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[@shaheer151]

The bad pitch played a role in it too, according to the commentators.

[@rajdebdey2527]

Pitch was very bad, almost unplayable.

[@warlord1987]

Ball kept so low its almost unplayable pitch. Sachin I think was out off a no ball. Not sure though

[@progamerthomas4713]

21 years ago and this loss still rankles me!! India could have achieved the unthinkable!! Could have proved decisive for the Indian cricket

[@prabhakarkmv4135]

That's Curtly! who knows how to be curt to batsmen! ❤️🏏🌹

[@pradipdave1269]

Sleepless night it was of my childhood, i m sure of many cricket fans

[@MichaelAndre-oj9zy]

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[@Hayden-me4nw]

❤❤

[@fernellamonrose5990]

Ian Bishop became one of my few favourite commentators......

[@blackangel4949]

Well played West Indies . We need our fast bowlers back

[@yakshith7483]

All say this " black live no matter " this is the result 😂😂

[@user-ow4vk1bv3j]

We have a good team now we beat Australia now it's x rest team

[@talibhassan652]

The interesting thing about this match was when India got bowled out it rained heavily and the field was flooded for two days. If India could have hung a little long they could have earned a draw. But what a Bowling attack that was.

[@lestercharles8522]

That attack, that pitch ...... I backed no batting line up to survive. Franklin Rose tho... Something special that never came to fruition.

[@TheAto2000]

Thank you for suggesting this, since I've wanted to relive it again from my school days . I remember that it was the only Test game with a winner during that 1997 five test tour by India.It coincided with Brian Lara getting his first (even though temporary) try at the West Indies captaincy.The win boosted his chances at finally getting it permanently in 1998.The loss affected counterpart Tendulkar's hold on the position.

[@julesforbes5737]

Fabulous , when would we see such a great West Indies team again?

[@arjunghose2868]

True, this loss really hurts because the runs required were so less- however this pitch is a minefield as correctly commentated both by Sunny Gavaskar and Boycott and anyone looking at the highly uneven bounce can gauge why India couldnt chase this. Still i think India could have had fought a bit more. And maybe a few decisions also were poor Sidhu's dismissal on a no ball. That umpire is even more blind than Bucknor.

[@BrainEquation]

Bishop and Rose, the lethal combo that didn’t happen. One of the many sad things about Windies into the 2000’s

[@touchscreenvybztv7787]

26 years ago almost 27 years, I can remember that match I was in my early 20s at the time and it was all about cricket those days most of Jamaican women used to watch cricket back then....

[@carmelwilliams5594]

I am a woman and still watch cricket ❤❤❤👍😊

[@kirtigupta9753]

I remember this match. It was a shameless loss comparable to the Ignominous collapse in SA in 1996.

[@ibrahimKHANNN239]

That was real cricket of 90s

[@JessyAleppy]

Old is gold always.. i still recollect this test match lost.

[@rays7756]

Batting on such wickets is a real test for a batsman's greatness.. and seeing great players unable to play just shows how difficult a wicket this was to bat on.. !

[@firekrueger3987]

A pitch how can u bat on the wicket...

[@chhapry]

@@firekrueger3987 dont make fun ..... 🙄

[@bangladeshball5644]

But atleast not that hard to chase only 120 runs.

[@elamcyril]

Nah, there was less demon in the pitch, more of indian better throwing wkt away with poor batting.

[@arjunghose2868]

@@bangladeshball5644 If you batted on this pitch along with your bangladeshi school boy team of Shakib al hasan we would have found out.

[@Kalkidevsena2024]

Damn..bad defeat by india 81 all out...well played by west indies.

[@riyazahmed208]

Beating westindies in westindies in 80s and 90s was next to impossible. It was no shame for theopposition to admit it at that time.

[@natashahenry264]

?,

[@petergreen5337]

Agreed

[@TheOops122]

This was the match between humans and aliens great windies skills at best. Miss these kings of game I still remember their terror on field. God bless all of them specially lara.

[@barringtonwhyte4051]

n no n . h m b h . h b no n gy.. b. ... k

[@sachoriginal1688]

U r right bro

[@kalidass2913]

WI was a Strong team in 1997 with the tallented bowlers Rose,Ambrose,Walsh and Batsmans Lara,Chanderpaul...

[@greatestvelox1566]

this is real west indies cricket

[@pollybrown3185]

Fx's yuh

[@maryhusegrove4458]

zz

[@tonyroy8123]

Fantastic result for WI!

[@thischannelhasnoname5780]

It's depressing to think we might never see a West Indies side like this again. Such a loss to world cricket that they have declined so far.

[@leopoldhall6628]

True that

[@nevillestewart3333]

It's a pity the once great cricket side used to play for PRIDE but maybe just now THIS young team looking like they get PRIDE

[@augustinemerchant2266]

@@leopoldhall6628 llļkoll

[@mauham7557]

IPL destroyed their cricket

[@blackgold1980]

​@@mauham7557 I disagree. IPL hasn't helped but it's the same for all national sides. What ruined west indies cricket was the incompetence and corruption of the WICB. Their refusal to plan for the future and lack of investment at state level into the game in the carribean.

[@cyberconciergeservices6068]

Always world greatest bowlers in West Indies

[@thewatcher5956]

Franklin Rose was poised to take over and even extend on what Ambros did but self discipline got the better of him

[@motseothatamafoko2484]

True, he disappeared quickly

[@withgodallthingsarepossibl2027]

This match seen like yesterday,loving west indies cricket always win loss r draw blessings always to west indies cricketers.

[@donetterichards8824]

Yes me too

[@tenacity8281]

This loss and getting bowled out for 54 vs SL in Sharjah forever haunted me as a kid .

[@rameshbist4181]

What about 36 allout😊

[@chhapry]

@@rameshbist4181 now it doesnt matter

[@ishaan6426]

@@rameshbist4181 it doesn't matter. We won the series when no one give us a chance. So stfu

[@manojjain3055]

I had seen this match Ambrose had taken 5 wicket .top class Indian batting line up failed in overseas again.

[@kabutarlal1926]

Wow the ball that got Sidhu out , was very difficult to play in those days, today it gets hit with jump in air...what time ..changed a lot in sport.

[@martinhardcastle9970]

The Windies players from the 70's and 80's would be multi millionaires if the IPL was around back then.

[@ac.bhartiya]

This Indian cricket team was filled with real legendary players. If the current Indian fancy cricket team would had faced this West Indies cricket team then they would have gone all out for 25 runs. or would had lost the match with one innings.

[@mrkipling2201]

Amazing how India had 5 brilliant batsmen all come through at roughly the same time and all at roughly the same age. I don’t think we’ll see that happen again in test cricket.

[@Rudeboydanyute]

They have 5 really good batsmen now.

[@mrkipling2201]

@@Rudeboydanyute not as good as the 5 they had in the past.

[@rohandesouza609]

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[@rehanaleem4125]

marvelous performance by the W.I fast bowlers however the only one Indian had presented the great resistance and that was Sunil Gavaskar from commentary box...

[@GANESH-fd4dc]

Absolutely. Gavaskar the greatest Indian batsman...The baap of Tendulkar!!

[@rehanaleem4125]

GANESH I think you didn't get my comments

[@GANESH-fd4dc]

Even as a batsman,I believe only he could have survived on this pitch...

[@Aman-nk5uq]

Ganesh u are wrong on many levels.

[@jeopardyfan3214]

😂😂

[@ianbynoe6515]

The pitch was bad , but there were some excellent deliveries that got the batmens out.

[@joncumber2020]

The Sachin dismissal closed the debate regarding who was the batsman of his generation. It could only be a Lara. You have to win games.

[@RD-ij2sz]

One match does not define any thing .

[@firekrueger3987]

I remember watching this with my pops in tobago west indies was a force man .... im in america now an when i go too gas station i tease the Pakistan or indian score keepers on how or team was so much better

[@jeevaypakistan9104]

The WI Team in the Era of Clive Lloyd & then Vivien Richard was a really Great Team, and now this Team suffering from the "Politics in Sports"

[@saleemkirmani5583]

Unfortunately yes.

[@jeffersonjohn4185]

​@@saleemkirmani5583to Thu no😅 please. The mo mo mo mo mo no

[@demosthenes1296]

That pitch was a stinker. The pea roller to get Azharudin by Ambrose and his reaction was priceless.

[@saifmasuldar1497]

Lara all time. Legend Ambrose my fav

[@20shourya]

Ambrose before hoes.

[@Ravikalavidh1259]

India restricted wi for 120 only isn't it great

[@shravp769]

Those days fielding was so relaxed, not much diving..no desperation to stop the 4..ppl were taking it easy compared to today

[@abhishekmukherji8620]

But batting was not so easy as compared to today's pitch are make easy for batters even who pick 6 & 4s are today superstars but in those days will only be 9to 11th batsman only u have to be very professional in those to make good 50only ...in 18 to 20 era

[@MaXX-555]

Now if u catch without dive, it will be declared NOT OUT .... fielders first take catch, then dive unnecessarily for camera

[@mainepaada4077]

Sachin once called it the most disappointing Match of his life.

[@Aman-nk5uq]

kya haal h bhai..urmila, rafi and ab yha bhi mil liye. Sab bdiyaa?

[@main_lukkha_hoon8795]

Yeah. Ganguly revealed in breakfast with champions that sachin cried after this loss.

[@Mannazify]

@@main_lukkha_hoon8795 Poor ol' Satchy Watchy. He's one of the best...

[@madsam9403]

Fuck Tendulkar

[@byroncole4467]

@@main_lukkha_hoon8795 the strongest of teams was nothing to wi team for years

[@ZulqarnaynAwan]

where r such west Indian bowlers now a days? Franklin Rose, what a bowler

[@davidwilliam8807]

Zulqarnayn Shahzal

[@shravp769]

I think he was a one match wonder...like many talented pakistani bowlers. It is reminder that talent is not enough to succeed

[@realtalkmediatv3153]

Shrav P franklin rose was a great tallent both with ball and bat but it was because of his indicipline why the kicked him out of the west indies team he is from jamaica

[@kolanjah]

clive edwards . Let me correct you my brother, it was because of his disagreement with brian lara.

[@adamsamuel8593]

+kalonji No he was VERY IGNORANT.

[@odainrattray8304]

Miss those glorious days

[@ABDULLAH746]

Westindies also defended 98 runs against Zimbabwe in a Test in 2000

[@haranmit]

Franklin Rose just cannons the deliveries...wat a bowler ..

[@juniorisaac5408]

P

[@prabhakarkmv4135]

I simply ❤️ 🌹! Well bowled Frankie! 🌹🏏❤️

[@erskinescott7438]

Browne the worst wicket keeper West indies had in a very very long time

[@mangeshinde]

May be because of his wicket keeping skills, but he was the reason West Indies won Champions Trophy back in 2004.

[@darrenrampersad2307]

Back then went crowd use to run into the field after West Indies win those was the days

[@IrshadAli-oq8sh]

I went to my tutorials in evening assuming that I will watch the highlights with india winning easily by 10 wicket only to follow by a shocker that india were bowled out for mere 81....

[@anbee8127]

Watching it would have been more painful buddy... thank your stars you missed it

[@drsmart0078]

Me too . Childhood days .

[@SHR78622]

Unever know it's cricket

[@krishnanand100]

Ambrose, Walsh, Bishop and Rose, that's a deadly quartet..

[@MaXX-555]

Walsh wasn't playing, it was dillon

[@locussgaming9123]

India had the best batting line up and see Azhar coming at 5 down.. but still could not win... on the other side, I would say WI had best bowling attack

[@goutambhowmick1372]

If Rishab pant was there... We won it obviously... Because of his magical scoring ability in quick succession...

[@MaXX-555]

Today's generation batters would have pissed in pants against these bowlers on such pitches

[@smarajitpunaykanti6463]

Franklyn rose didn't have along career but came out good that day neither did Lara come out as a good captain for west indies

[@RishabDhar1988]

Second highest run scorer - extras.

[@yohanvalviy5048]

😃😃

[@prabhakarkmv4135]

Franklin Rose 🌹?! Oh, don't expect his bowling to be so Rosy but know every Rose 🌹 has its own thorns too! 🏏

[@SPMJ]

Talk about a minefield. Ball constantly taking off like crazy from length and seaming with every delivery. Pretty much impossible to bat on. Recall watching this live as a kid and being embarrassed by India's failure to chase a paltry score of 120. Watching these highlights today though....I can at least understand why it happened.

[@georgebrowne5719]

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[@georgebrowne5719]

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[@vansespeiris]

“Ian Bishop ! Ian Bishop ! Remember the name,”

[@DietPlanning]

Alwys Remember 3-0 ,5-0,1-0 Blackwash in Lanka Aug 2017.

[@qadianiprlanat1403]

SpecificDietPlans .hhhhaash good reply

[@trevorthomas2773]

FRANKLYN ROSE. BIG BOWLER

[@ginellehutchins1428]

@@DietPlanning ppp

[@ginellehutchins1428]

@@DietPlanning Kf

[@bagisudhakar9351]

Yes I remembered this match it's a killer pitch

[@Ven369k]

If Ind had a good bowling attack during that time ,they would hav been chasing just 40 or 50 runs.

[@philipwilliams7112]

All of you are wrong,these things only happen in Barbados and Jamaica.The morning of this match the field around the wicket was water logged.No rain had fallen.The cricket Board refuse to let India bat at 11 pm.

[@conradaugust1840]

What a match Ambrose Rose and Bishop destroys a top notch line up

[@suyogpatil434]

For all Indians worst defeat in years similar to Pak loss in 99 these two test matches still gives me sleepless nights feels like as if a part of me playing there even Sachin Tendulkar has mentioned this as a greatest loss in his test career coz it was a golden chance for him as a captain to win a overseas series on W indies tour

[@marciaburtongordon5028]

😂😂😂😂

[@arjunghose2868]

@@marciaburtongordon5028 What's so funny that you are laughing? Someone wins and someone loses these days West Indies lose everything in tests to India.

[@marciaburtongordon5028]

@@arjunghose2868 ok kool

[@speechlessfeelings71]

Only two legends scored double figures 1st one is VVS.Luxman & 2nd one are extras😁. Great bowling by Ambrose,Rose & Bishop. 🙏🇮🇳Huge respect from India to these 3 pace battery of Windies.

[@amitkrana20042004]

Rose only damaged India on that day. Except one no ball wicket all other wickets are fallen to great deliveries by Rose.

[@praveensgads915]

Vvs & extras were top💖

[@recoroberts1652]

West indies need to learn from these bowler line and length

[@freeaccount960]

I am sixty four years i watch.cricket.since.i was.a little boy.i.follow.cricket.all.my.life.i.dont.find.these.team.is.as strong as the comenttator sayes

[@realhuman7908]

Aaj india ke khilaf aisi pitch banao. Bumrah & Co tagda jawab degi. Australia se pooch lo.

[@HazardMEG]

Tendulkar's weakness... that cover drive!

[@rimeofmariner326]

Absolutely beautiful crowd !

[@a34863]

who is here after watching the story on sports Tak (Vikrant Sir)

[@naveenchauhan581]

me aya hu

[@nileshgangani5418]

I am

[@damanpreetsingh4406]

Me

[@sacheenshora7139]

Yes... I follow Vikrant .. big time loyal follower ... and at that time it was Brian Lara VS Sachin Tendulkar .. and both captaincy were on stake with their pride.

[@sindhuchauhan2635]

Me

[@thomaswhyulying6524]

Great still to find this game so exciting.

[@ab.digital5737]

Fantastic Effort. WI super stars

[@thomaswhyulying6524]

Always great to see these cricketers

[@wesleybryan9421]

Bring back the Caribbean glory in cricket...

[@soumenchatterjee32760]

BCCI should seriously consider bringing Windies Cricket to the Indian television screens with so many channels now showing interest in cricket.

[@suraj8092]

Props to the West Indies team for setting India a good target of 120.

[@pramilaom1944]

this pitch is very bad for batting..................................anyways this is for both team ......but westindian bowler bowling very well

[@smarajitpunaykanti6463]

This match is the greatest regret of Sachin's career he once said. We ran to see the match in our tiffin time in Class IX but by then the match was over

[@ravikiran5894]

This match was in West Indies and started at 7pm Indian time. Are u sure it was school time

[@arjunghose2868]

@@ravikiran5894 I think he went to night school :P

[@mitalpatel8272]

I still remember that I slept that night considering it's a small target but found out in the morning that we lost the game.

[@Bareilykobans]

This was a very tricky pitch. I had my doubts if India will be able to score 120 on this even with a very strong batting line up. A couple of friends even made fun of me for saying it. Look at the balls that got Sindh and Azharuddin. Shows the unpredictability of the pitch.

[@arjunghose2868]

Although Sidhu's dismissal was of a no ball. Both Gavaskar and Boycott said that this is a very difficult pitch to bat on. However India should have certainly showed some more fight.

[@drsmart0078]

Indian greats floored by the Windies pace battery . Never watched this game . Just read from the newspaper. Childhood days .

[@kachua810]

Really by far, this Barbados was most unplayable dangerous pitch ever in history of test cricket.

[@MrPeterpiper1969]

I disagree. Sabina was even worse hence the match there between Eng and WI being abandoned after less than an hour. But this pitch is a disgrace and the match should never have been played on such a dreadful and dangerous surface. It's a miracle no one was seriously hurt or worse.

[@winstonleighton1358]

Not Barbados . It was Trinidad.

[@himanshusachdev9750]

West Indies players have a Manly personality.

[@GANESH-fd4dc]

Very painful defeat. On a pitch that was getting terrible on each passing day,West Indies was reeling at 95/8 in the 2nd innings with a lead of just 74 runs - and all proper batsmen back in the pavilion. A target of 85-90 would have given lesser pressure and a famous win to India. But the 9th and 10th wicket pair of West Indies - Curtly Ambrose,Franklyn Rose and Mervyn Dillon - added another 45 runs(!!!) on this wicket and took the West Indian 2nd innings total to 140 - setting India a target of 120. and that turned out to be the difference. Lets get this straight. Sachin Tendulkar was a very good captain. But he always captained an ordinary side and was extremely unlucky as well. Now many fans call him bad captain. Unfortunate. In this case,the Indian bowlers failed to finish the job in the 2nd innings and let the match slip away.

[@Aman-nk5uq]

Please reply..since how long are you watching cricket and how old are you. Please tell.

[@locussgaming9123]

I would say that he had good batting team here which could have chased a total of 120.. Why, even Sachin did not perform in this 2nd innings when it was required,,

[@paragshirwadkar5094]

@@locussgaming9123 but first innings he top scored with 92

[@anupsharma4558]

I have started enjoying matches when people like shawag, yuuraj, dhoni joined the team.

[@adrianclarke3435]

spinner pitch in India pace here in the Caribbean

[@frankjhobaptiste5240]

Adrian Clarke just to good to deal with

[@smvarma7]

True. But if spinning wicket in India everyone complains bad wicket. In carribean many times last day is like this but no one says anything. Recently in that Ambrose interview Atherton said openly

[@mrkipling2201]

I know India were bowled out for only 81 chasing 120 but at least 3 of the Indian wickets were taken by balls that were unplayable. No batsman in the world would have stayed in. The pitch was fruity to say the least!! Plus the first wicket was bowled by a No ball !!

[@abdulkader2823]

🎉🎉🎉 Indian history win

[@folaadebayo2767]

I agree entirely, cricket became a lot less interesting for me in the 2000’s. Still never say never!

[@vickumar4526]

West Indies was still having few good bowlers those days..now get over it ..they have nothing to offer now.

[@shekharthingore9477]

The worst of the pitch they could have made... bloody started crumbling in the end.one ball bouncing over head and other ball bouncing below knee pitching at the same spot...a disgrace pitch.

[@TheSkirvo]

Malcolm Marshall.. not long after, we lost him

[@Aman-nk5uq]

he is not even bowling here.

[@rayonsmith9564]

Cameron Skirving wat

[@annmariegoddard6060]

@@Aman-nk5uq that's because he was their coach.

[@annmariegoddard6060]

@@rayonsmith9564 he died November 4th 1999.

[@TheSkirvo]

@@Aman-nk5uq He was coaching the side.

[@AsadMalik-qi9gx]

hey suhass997 cricket, was this series fixed by indian team captain "SACHIN TENDULKAR", please let me know.

[@albertbrown3927]

Curtly Ambrose is real mad man anytime u hit for 6 look for a yalker or bouncer come next

[@thadtuiol1717]

Sigh... I miss those days when local West Indies people got this excited by test cricket. Nowadays it's just mostly foreign tourists.

[@joncumber2020]

Yes. You could stand in the middle of the road on any island today offering free test tickets and no one shall take them. Ironic as the test team has finally begun to ascend. Very sad but the Test era is now fading globally.

[@jb-xm1yi]

That pitch was utterly unplayable. I only started following cricket in the early 2000s and nowadays that game would have been abandoned. No wonder batting averages were lower in the 90s than they are today. Imagine Smith, Kholi, Root etc averaging over 50 on these wickets. Impossible to bat on.

[@adrianclarke3435]

you corrupt

[@adrianclarke3435]

look n India fuckery pitch them

[@denvercheddie]

That is why great batsmen like Viv Richards were able to just score 8500 runs in Tests, while players like Kallis have scored over 12000. Pitches nowadays are too batsman friendly. This is the influence of 20/20 and what not. IMO, a score of 100 back in the old days was the equivalent of 150 today.

[@lenarcher6997]

jb 927 Sure, the pitch was helpful but the bowlers were unplayable because they were disciplined. The West Indies has been unable to produce quality, disciplined bowlers.

[@adamsamuel8593]

Stop talking Shit. The pitch was unplayable when it was time for teams to chase. The pitch was always the same. Nowadays batsmen should be ashamed because there arent much great fast bowlers now like in the 70's, 80's and 90's.

[@darwaishbaba8184]

India batted much better here than 36 all out.

[@educationgroup6631]

This pitch is killer.

[@majeedmohamed1790]

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